This is what a totalitarian state does to its own people
Bookworm on Jun 20 2009 at 7:15 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Please watch this only if you have a strong stomach and a true desire to see what life is like in a totalitarian regime.
This is not about watching a snuff film (although it felt like it). This is a reminder to Americans about the government Barack Obama is currently backing. Obama may be a political pragmatist, but he’s also completely amoral (and immoral, if one can be both).
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Am I missing something in this liberal ode to Iranian democracy?…
Here’s the article from an extremely Progressive San Francisco blog. Here’s my distillation: 1. Liberals truly care about freedom, because they protested their hearts out over the illegal U.S. war in Iraq. 2. For all that screaming against the evil…..
This is what a totalitarian state does to its own people…
Please watch this only if you have a strong stomach and a true desire to see what life is like in a totalitarian regime. This is not about watching a snuff film (although it felt like it). This is a……
An absolutely must read on the absolutely critical nature of the Iranian uprising at http://www.davidwarrenonline.com
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?id=1012
It is titled “Win or Die”
I will quote it below at some length. But you must read it for yourself. Vanquishing the mullahs is the path to peace.
And when you do read it, take note of the utter foolishness and bassackward perversity of believing the big lie that if we could only solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict*, peace in the Mideast will follow.
[i.e., "solve" means placating the implacable palestinian terrorists]
From David Warren:
“Everything is on the line in Iran, at present — not only the future of the Iranian regime, but also of the Middle East, and by extension, the most tangible western interests.
Consider: if the Iranian regime were to fall, by far the largest organized threat to peace in the region would be removed. This includes not only a fairly proximate nuclear threat to Israel (for all we know North Korea’s second nuclear test was actually Iran’s first), but sponsorship of the most efficient part of the world’s Islamist terror apparatus.
Hezbollah and Hamas are both, today, for all practical purposes, Iranian proxies. Through them, and through other channels, the regime of the ayatollahs makes money, materiel, and expertise available to terror cells as far away as Argentina, Sweden, the Philippines.
But more significantly, Hezbollah and Hamas together represent an Iranian veto on any Palestinian settlement, or any attempt to ameliorate that conflict, with all that that implies.
The Syrian regime, most dangerous of Israel’s neighbours, would, in the absence of Iranian support, have to make accommodations, indeed find new allies.
North Korea’s chief conduit into the illicit Middle Eastern arms trade would be lost.
The principal external threat to Iraq would be removed, along with sponsorship of Iraq’s own domestic insurgencies. Afghanistan would also be more secure.
In economic terms, the threat of a world crisis provoked by the interdiction of oil shipments from the Persian Gulf would disappear.
Both Russia and China would lose a very important lever of influence on world affairs.
If the ayatollahs come down, the whole world situation is changed, and in every conceivable way for the better. It is impossible to overestimate the stakes of the insurrection in Iran.”
Warren lays it out although he is not optimistic. He expects “the regime to win, in a bloodbath. Guns trump warm bodies. But it may well be a close-run thing.”
I am awed by the courage of those protestors. Gunmen pick-off unarmed protestors to the left and to the right and the others keep walking – not running, not retreating, not screaming – walking! This is pure unadulterated courage.
Oh…and a reminder: they, all the Iranians protestors, have asked people the world over to wear green today.
At its core, the protests were originally about a stolen election. The candidate that won was only 75% evil. Mahmoud Achmadinejad and Ali Khamenei (may pieces become of them), who stole the election, are 99% evil.
The people poured into the streets because they rightly knew that their vote had been completely ignored. The regime of monkeyman and Khamenei is hated and has little support. It had just been completely repudiated via the vote; now it was determined to hang onto power, in the best traditions of any dictatorship, religious or otherwise.
Righting the results would not lead to a flowering of democracy in Iran. It would not end support for Hamas or Hezbollah. It would not end the development of nuclear missiles, nor the threat to Israel. But it does appear that the support for each of these would dial down a few notches, which is indeed a good thing.
And it would spell the end of the rabid belief in the imminence of the appearance of the 12th imam, and the need to force His Twelfth to climb out of his well by deliberately creating a worldwide Armageddon-like crisis that would force His Hand. Oh, He’d still be appearing, someday; but the burning desire to turn Tel Aviv into a smoking ruin on Tuesday of next week, so that He would appear to us all on Wednesday… that would be deferred, possibly for years. A good thing.
I could be wrong about all of this. If I’m right, then I’m surprised by David Warren’s analysis. Perhaps Mr. Warren is seeing that an insurrection such as this can begin by being solely about a disputed election, but then transform into something wildly different – a genuine people’s movement, an actual revolution, that could totally change politics in Iran and end the Mullahcracy itself.
So, by instituting a coup – of one political faction against another faction – the rabid hardliners may have let a djinn out of the bottle that they cannot control. I hope that’s the case.
But Bush is the same way. That’s why he is out of power, and why Democrats can gloat about it, and that’s why Democrats like Reid, PillowC, anti-Bush and anti-American F heads still have their heads.
Isn’t that right?
The previous is a perfectly good example of the power of propaganda, used against the self-interests of the great majority of human beings.
The video can be used as a weapon of propaganda for the self-interest of a great majority of human beings, on the other hand.